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December 15, 2009The Found: Mary Sue
December 15, 2009Mary
(sometimes just Sue)
is
fulfillment
underlying all
how exceptional and wonderful
quickly either male
or female
Mary
original
fantasies
may seem to push
her
undisguised
Mary comes
is judged
improbably
the puzzle
Mary
is
a flaw
is an annoyance,
is also apparently not a flaw
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December 15, 2009I Think Andy Rooney Has Cloned And Set Down Root
December 14, 2009I Think Andy Rooney Has Cloned And Set Down Root In My Psyche, Dreaming Of Poetry
to think deep thoughts
make cosmic projections
–wouldn’t that be nice
to expound on the ground and the weight of the state of it
universalize the wonder of it all
–did you ever notice
to unmeasure time
create worlds from the space between words
–here’s a poem I wrote once
FEATHER
December 14, 2009all her life, they had been saving down
to make her wedding feather bed
to celebrate the birth,
grandmother killed a goose
and brought the carcase, warm,
to where her daughter lay
a mother makes the first gift
weakly wrenched out of the body
the first feather was bound
inside a square of silk, red,
with wormwood, thyme, and rue
the bundle, smaller than a baby’s fist,
soaked by the fire, in bees’ wax
until the baby had a name
from that day, for a hundred days
they melted crimson wax, dipped
the feather once, and let it harden
honey-scented, it still waited
feather herbs and silk
under bushel bags of down

